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>F.30. pgrowlocks</A
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>  The <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>pgrowlocks</TT
> module provides a function to show row
  locking information for a specified table.
 </P
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><A
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>F.30.1. Overview</A
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><PRE
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>pgrowlocks(text) returns setof record</PRE
><P
>   The parameter is the name of a table.  The result is a set of records,
   with one row for each locked row within the table.  The output columns
   are shown in <A
HREF="pgrowlocks.html#PGROWLOCKS-COLUMNS"
>Table F-19</A
>.
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>Table F-19. <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>pgrowlocks</CODE
> Output Columns</B
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><TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
>locked_row</TT
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><TT
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>tid</TT
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>Tuple ID (TID) of locked row</TD
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><TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
>lock_type</TT
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><TT
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>text</TT
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><TT
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>Shared</TT
> for shared lock, or
             <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>Exclusive</TT
> for exclusive lock</TD
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><TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
>locker</TT
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><TT
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>xid</TT
></TD
><TD
>Transaction ID of locker, or multixact ID if multi-transaction</TD
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><TT
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>multi</TT
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><TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>boolean</TT
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>True if locker is a multi-transaction</TD
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><TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
>xids</TT
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CLASS="TYPE"
>xid[]</TT
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>Transaction IDs of lockers (more than one if multi-transaction)</TD
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><TT
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>pids</TT
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>Process IDs of locking backends (more than one if multi-transaction)</TD
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>   <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>pgrowlocks</CODE
> takes <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>AccessShareLock</TT
> for the
   target table and reads each row one by one to collect the row locking
   information.  This is not very speedy for a large table.  Note that:
  </P
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>    If the table as a whole is exclusive-locked by someone else,
    <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>pgrowlocks</CODE
> will be blocked.
    </P
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><P
>     <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>pgrowlocks</CODE
> is not guaranteed to produce a
     self-consistent snapshot.  It is possible that a new row lock is taken,
     or an old lock is freed, during its execution.
    </P
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>   <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>pgrowlocks</CODE
> does not show the contents of locked
   rows. If you want to take a look at the row contents at the same time, you
   could do something like this:

</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>SELECT * FROM accounts AS a, pgrowlocks('accounts') AS p
  WHERE p.locked_row = a.ctid;</PRE
><P>

   Be aware however that (as of <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> 8.3) such a
   query will be very inefficient.
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>F.30.2. Sample Output</A
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>test=# SELECT * FROM pgrowlocks('t1');
 locked_row | lock_type | locker | multi |   xids    |     pids
------------+-----------+--------+-------+-----------+---------------
      (0,1) | Shared    |     19 | t     | {804,805} | {29066,29068}
      (0,2) | Shared    |     19 | t     | {804,805} | {29066,29068}
      (0,3) | Exclusive |    804 | f     | {804}     | {29066}
      (0,4) | Exclusive |    804 | f     | {804}     | {29066}
(4 rows)</PRE
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>F.30.3. Author</A
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>   Tatsuo Ishii
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